One-Third of Women Are Practicing Shopping Abstinence

According to Forbes, retailer woes are certain to continue as a survey shows that one out of every three women plans to not buy any clothes in 2009. (Last year, that figure was only 4 percent.)
Lane Bryant, the Gap, and Zales are expected to close stores nationwide in the coming months as consumer debt continues to pile up from bygone days of shopping with abandon:
Those days are over, probably for a long time. While accelerating unemployment will only last so long, consumers’ debt loads and credit access don’t figure to recover to pre-party levels for quite awhile.
“I don’t think we will live the same way for 10 years,” says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of New York-based retail consultant and investment bank Davidowitz & Associates. “People are so scared they’re starting to save.”
One woman’s credit-card debt is another woman’s recessionista shopping spree.
So E.S. readers, are you in that one-third?

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